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� Brief: Most surgeons want life support agreement before operating - Dec. 31, 2012
� Brief: Court weighs constitutionality of state abortion ban - Dec. 31, 2012
� Brief: Physicians uneasy when patient is hospital philanthropist - Dec. 24, 2012
� What if Supreme Court is not done with health reform law? - Dec. 10, 2012
� Column: Resuscitation “slow codes” are compassionate yet deceptive - Dec. 10, 2012
� Ruling upholds role of medical liability screening panels - Dec. 3, 2012
� Story Comment: AMA meeting: Delegates adopt physician employment principles - Nov. 26, 2012
� Patient satisfaction: When a doctor�s judgment risks a poor rating - Nov. 26, 2012
� Story Comment: AMA adopts principles to govern possible Medicare switch to a defined-contribution system - Nov. 13, 2012
� Few clinical guideline panels follow financial-conflict standards - Nov. 12, 2012
� Discussion: Transparency or suspicion? A wrong turn for reports on financial ties in medicine - Nov. 12, 2012
� Story Comment: AMA delegates debate defined-contribution Medicare financing - Nov. 11, 2012
� Column: Pros and cons of letting patients record doctor visits - Nov. 5, 2012
� Multimedia: Test your knowledge of advance directives - Oct. 29, 2012
� Clearing up confusion on advance directives - Oct. 29, 2012
� Doctors cast skeptical eye on pharma-backed studies - Oct. 8, 2012
� Column: Factors for patients to ponder when choosing a surrogate - Oct. 8, 2012
� Tax breaks do little to encourage living organ donations - Sept. 17, 2012
� Patients� medical decisions benefit from DVD guidance - Sept. 11, 2012
� Column: Will concierge medicine�s image improve as it evolves? - Sept. 3, 2012
� NQF draws on AMA toolkit to gauge patient-friendly communication - Aug. 28, 2012
� Health insurance exchanges: The big unknowns - Aug. 27, 2012
� Prenatal genome sequencing expected to pose challenges to doctors - Aug. 27, 2012
� Physicians resist states� interference in practice of medicine - Aug. 27, 2012
� Court blocks expansion of abortion ban - Aug. 20, 2012
� Discussion: Living organ donors shouldn�t have to pay for their altruism - Aug. 13, 2012
� Hospital websites don't tell whole story on robot-assisted surgery - Aug. 6, 2012
� Column: Warning signs of physician alcohol impairment - Aug. 6, 2012
� Surgeons balk at withdrawing life support after medical errors - July 31, 2012
� Ban on pharma meals for physicians overturned - July 23, 2012
� Plan to compensate bone marrow donors moves forward - July 17, 2012
� Push for �death with dignity� in Massachusetts picks up steam - July 16, 2012
� Physical punishment in childhood associated with later mental disorders, study says - July 13, 2012
� Minority patients less interested in hospice care - July 9, 2012
� Column: Rules, technology leave drug reps out of luck - July 9, 2012
� News Telemedicine can pose ethical problems, delegates warn - July 2, 2012
� News Doctors advised to consider costs in care choices - July 2, 2012
� Expert witness need not have same specialty as doctor defendant - July 2, 2012
� Discussion: Doctors, decisions and dollars: Why stewardship matters - July 2, 2012
� Column: Medical societies� authority to discipline expert witnesses faces challenge - June 25, 2012
� Column: How to talk to patients about genetic testing - June 20, 2012
� The limits of treating loved ones - June 20, 2012
� End-of-life care: Pain control carries risk of being called a killer - June 20, 2012
� Is honesty the best policy when giving placebos to patients? - June 18, 2012
� Checklist approach to be tested in end-of-life care planning - June 13, 2012
� Cause of negligence not necessary for liability suit to proceed - June 11, 2012
� Early �sunshine� laws show little effect on prescribing - June 11, 2012
� When a patient visit includes a request for prayer - June 11, 2012
� At-home HIV test could expand screening, hinder follow-up care - June 4, 2012
� Column: Nutrition talks with patients: option or obligation? - June 4, 2012
� Transplant experts question impact of Facebook�s organ-donor registration push - May 28, 2012
� Kansas doctors not required to provide drugs that could end pregnancy - May 28, 2012
� Drugmakers pledge transparency to tackle credibility problem in journals - May 21, 2012
� Court blocks elimination of funding for Texas Planned Parenthood clinics - May 14, 2012
� Physician gift tracking by drug companies delayed until 2013 - May 10, 2012
� Aggressive end-of-life care for Medicare dialysis patients is pervasive - May 7, 2012
� Column: How to talk to patients about genetic testing - May 7, 2012
� Connected Coverage: Obstacles in providing end-of-life care - May 7, 2012
� Med school on the fast track: A 3-year degree - May 5, 2012
� Wisconsin doctors get support to help patients complete advance directives - April 30, 2012
� State abortion laws place unprecedented limits, requirements on doctors - April 27, 2012
� NIH�s 1,000 Genomes Project gains wider access - April 18, 2012
� 5 Hawaii doctors offer assisted suicide to terminally ill patients - April 17, 2012
� Website offers Q&A on patients� ethical quandaries - April 16, 2012
� End-of-life care: Pain control carries risk of being called a killer - April 16, 2012
� Oklahoma judge rules pre-abortion sonogram law unconstitutional - April 9, 2012
� Column: Data bank information needs careful interpretation - April 9, 2012
� Genome sequencing to add new twist to doctor-patient talks - April 2, 2012
� Pharma scales back drug samples to physician offices - March 26, 2012
� Family physician who supported assisted suicide dies with doctor�s aid - March 23, 2012
� Self-prescribing among medical residents on the decline - March 19, 2012
� Column: Follow-up resources are key to health fairs� success - March 12, 2012
� Alabama doctors can be sued for death of unborn, pre-viable child - March 12, 2012
� Organized medicine seeks more latitude to challenge industry gift reports - March 12, 2012
� Male newborn circumcision rate falls to lowest level - March 2, 2012
� 76% of patients neglect end-of-life care planning - Feb. 27, 2012
� Georgia high court strikes down assisted suicide law - Feb. 20, 2012
� Some doctors shield whole truth from patients, survey shows - Feb. 17, 2012
� Column: Special assistance needs of young and old place demands on doctors - Feb. 13, 2012
� The limits of treating loved ones - Feb. 6, 2012
� Outcry over disabled girl's transplant care renews eligibility debate - Feb. 6, 2012
� Average hospice length of stay is falling - Feb. 1, 2012
� Connected Coverage: Physicians subject to increasing scrutiny - Jan. 30, 2012
� Doctors should weigh costs in treatment, ACP says - Jan. 18, 2012
� Former drug reps eyed to pitch physicians on referrals - Jan. 16, 2012
� Column: Physicians can find themselves in the middle of medical guideline debates - Jan. 16, 2012
� Flu strain raises concerns about H5N1 outbreak - Jan. 16, 2012
� Ohio high court: Expert witnesses required in cases alleging lack of informed consent - Jan. 11, 2012
� Connected Coverage: A look back at the big stories of 2011 - Jan. 9, 2012
� Make human research data publicly available, bioethics report says - Jan. 5, 2012
� Handful of states promise physicians online access to advance directives - Jan. 3, 2012
� Disaster medicine dilemmas examined - Jan. 2, 2012
� Company withdraws contracts controlling online comments by patients - Jan. 2, 2012
� Texas Medicaid managed care expansion approved - Jan. 2, 2012
� Appeals court to rehear South Dakota law promoting abortion-suicide link - Jan. 2, 2012

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